PRESIDENT BUSH: Mr. Ambassador, thank you very much for having us.
Laura and I have come to your embassy to express our heart-felt
sympathies for those who have lost their lives, and our strong
determination to stand with the government of Egypt and the people of
Egypt in rejecting this kind of violence and terror.

The people who struck in Sharm el-Sheikh killed Muslims, innocent
mothers and dads, people who were trying to make a living. They have no
heart, they have no conscience, and they have no ideology that is
hopeful. And they have an ideology of hate.

It was my honor to speak to your President, President Mubarak, and again
reiterate my country's strong desire to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with
the people of Egypt and bring justice to those who killed innocent
people.

Thank you for letting us come by.

AMBASSADOR FAHMY: Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Mrs. Bush. I
want to thank you both very much and very sincerely for coming here this
morning to share with us in this moment of remembrance to the people who
have lost their lives -- Egyptians, foreigners -- at Sharm el-Sheikh
over the weekend. I think your presence here, your phone call to the
President over the weekend, and also the many Americans who have been in
touch with our embassy, and in Cairo, reflect the nature of the
relationship that we have together, as two countries working
hand-in-hand for peace and stability in the region, working against
terrorism.

As you are well aware, we were the targets of terrorism years ago,
as you were on 9/11. And we continue to work together, resolute, to
deal with this scourge, and ultimately, hopefully to develop in the
Middle East an Egypt that is prosperous, stable and secure for all.

I'd like to see this occasion to thank you both, and through you, all of
the American people, and to reaffirm our determination to continue to
pursue terrorism without equivocation and determination and resolve.
Thank you, sir.